Two foreign tourists take a selfie at Bui Vien Walking Street. Bui Vien was packed with visitors amid a vibrant atmosphere on Sunday night, when the popular thoroughfare in Ho Chi Minh City’s ...

Bars, discotheques and beer clubs reopened in Saigon on Monday after nearly eight months, and Bui Vien Street is again buzzing at night. It's 8 p.m. on Monday and Nguyen Minh Hung, 28, a worker at a ...

Thousands of local and foreign tourists flocked to Bui Vien Walking Street in the popular backpacker area of HCM City’s District 1 as it officially welcomed walkers at its grand opening on August 20’s ...

Authorities are hoping that the work to turn Bui Vien into a walking street will make the popular backpacker area more attractive. More than 50 workers are hastily working on the construction of the ...

Despite their small size and location in deep alleys, the so-called matchbox houses on Bui Vien Street, HCMC's premier entertainment street for backpackers, still command sky-high selling prices. Bui ...

Editor’s Note: Derek Milroy, a Scot, has lived in Ho Chi Minh City for four years. He got married to a Vietnamese wife and is working for an English-language newspaper in the southern city. When I ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Ho Chi Minh City: Nguyen Van Ba has been living near Bui Vien, the bustling main street of the backpackers’ district in Ho Chi Minh City ...